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City staff seeks emergency contract to replace HVAC at Republic Municipal Justice Center
Summary
City purchasing director told Pueblo City Council staff recommends an emergency cooperative purchase with Trane to replace the failing HVAC system at the Republic Municipal Justice Center, citing repeated breakdowns, expensive repairs and long lead times for parts.
Naomi Hedden, the city's director of purchasing, told the Pueblo City Council at its July 14 work session that staff is treating replacement of the HVAC at the Republic Municipal Justice Center as an emergency and seeks authority to use an existing Omnia cooperative agreement with Trane to get equipment ordered quickly.
Hedden said the justice center houses police, fire dispatch, municipal court and critical IT infrastructure and that system outages disrupt multiple city services. "If the system goes down, all of that stops," she said, and added the existing equipment has required repeated repairs and is past its effective life.
Hedden said the existing HVAC "went down 26 times in 2024, 4 times this year," that the city has paid "over $120,000 in just 2 repairs," and that some replacement parts have had…
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